Joining in with Cathy’s popular weekly gathering of vases from around the world.
David and I bought the blue-grey jug, together with a smaller one, a couple of mugs and a large bowl, all in the same style and colour, from a small pottery off the beaten track in North Devon about 20 years ago. Sadly, we can’t remember the name of the pottery or exactly where it was but we’re very fond of the pieces. It contains:
Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Album’ (rock cranesbill)
feathery Achillea millefolium (common yarrow) leaves
a few snips of a lovely little, lime-green euphorbia (unknown variety)
some chive flowers from a large clump looking lovely at the moment
Nigella buds and foliage for added texture
Our lilac bush is almost at its peak and will be wafting its glorious scent all over the back garden any moment now. It arches over the path to the gate and a few of the lower branches get in the way of the taller members of our family. I cut a couple of the lower, straggly ones this morning to use the blooms in my Monday vase but decided instead to give them a vase all of their own.
Have a good week.
acoastalplot 
I could practically smell those lilacs as soon as I saw your first photo. What a beautiful shrub to have in your garden. I can’t claim any plant that scents the entire space around it.
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You need the right combination of a still sunny day and peak flowering time, then it is intoxicating.
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Your lilacs cascading are lovely, Sam. They are wonderful in a vase, too. It looks like the regular Geranium macrorrhizum along the top of the wall there too, I like them as a ground cover. The charatreuse and lavender colors are pretty together in your lovely pottery jug, such a treasure.
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Yes, that is G.macrorrhizum along the top of the wall with more Erigeron. I’m fond of hardy geraniums – such good-value plants.
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Just fabulous with so many lovely blooms and especially the lilacs….Your bush is stunning and I can smell it from here!
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Ha ha, if only it was smell-o-vision.
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the lilac and euphorbia green balance each other.
With subtle support from the blue and the grey in the jug (which I would love to take home)
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What fabulous flowers. Love lilac so much and it goes so well with the lime green of the euphorbia. There are so many gorgeous flowers to choose from at the moment. B xx
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Those nigella seed heads are gorgeous and blend beautifully with the euphorbia – and you have chive flowers too whch \i was just commenting on elsewhere! I have been admiring a neighbour’s lilac – not near enough to reach and snip a few blooms from though!
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What a lovely pair of toning vases and so beautifully photographed. Get you!
Have a great week yourself.
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Ha ha, thank you 🙂
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Love your pretty vases and freshly cut bouquet!
have a nice day!
Olympia
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Such beautiful photos! The light on those fresh green euphorbia petals brings your vase alive. Nigella looks wonderful as a bud. I bet some will be opening this week. 😉
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Thank you Cathy. The nigella buds are ready to burst.
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Oh, how pretty. I love them both. The lilacs must smell so heavenly in your house! I adore the little jar you have them in too. I have a few jam jars with that “quilted” look to them and when they’re full of jam, I constantly hold them up to the window to look at the jam through them. 🙂
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I love the colours through this glass jar/vase – I’m sure jam looks Jewel-like 🙂
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As others have said – both the flowers and your photos are lovely Sam! Lilac makes me shut my eyes and remember more than almost any other plant, so a treat for me. And the shot of it in your garden was lovely too – very evocative. I look forward to seeing more of your vases and your garden!
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Thank you Cathy. There is something about lilac, isn’t there?
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Beautiful blooms! You really do pick and display the most beautiful flowers from your garden!
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Very kind of you to say, Amy 🙂
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My lilac has tipped over now. It doesn’t last long does it? I love your vase and the flowers. Xx
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It doesn’t last long but I don’t mind – when it’s here, it’s stonking.
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How I would love to stand in front of that Lilac and take in the fragrance. Ours does not have nearly so many blooms.
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oh those colour are just gorgeous x
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Your lilac must smell wonderful! I love the vases and your flowers from the garden this week. Sarah x
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I’m ridiculously late reading this but it’s lovely all the same.
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The scent of lilac is intoxicating. It is one of the scents of childhood. Lovely to bring it into the house. I love your Devon pottery vase.
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